Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needless U.S. and Vietnamese casualties. The U.S., he argued, should reform the corrupt Saigon regime and woo the peasantry. Despite his role as gadfly, Vann rose through the system, ultimately becoming the top U.S. adviser for central Viet Nam and the first civilian, according to Sheehan, ever to command U.S. troops in wartime...
...pilot. He piloted the 1985 Discovery shuttle flight that deployed three communications satellites and repaired a fourth. The Coveys -- Dick, wife Kathleen and daughters Sarah, 14, and Amy, 12 -- often socialize with the Haucks outside work and enjoy a close relationship. Covey, who is in line for a shuttle command himself, snapped up Hauck's invitation to pilot the critical Discovery mission...
Last week the slow pace of Soviet reform helped provoke the largest and most dramatic Kremlin shake-up since Gorbachev took command three years ago. In a meeting of the 300-member Central Committee called by Gorbachev with lightning speed, a series of retirements, reassignments and promotions swept out most of what remained of the Old Guard and strengthened the Soviet leader's control over the ruling Politburo...
...Challenger arose. Now the loudspeakers carried the voice of Mission Control in Houston, which took over from the Kennedy controllers seven seconds into the flight. "Go at throttle up," Houston called at around the 70-second mark, and more than a few stomachs knotted. That was the last command heard by the crew of Challenger, which exploded seconds later. "I was saying 'Please, please' as Discovery passed the 73-second mark," says Psam Ordener, wife of a Houston space engineer...
...announced that Paul had retired from the army with a pension of $960 a month. Paul negotiated the agreement with Lieut. General Prosper Avril, his 1961 classmate at Haiti's military academy, who is now President of the country. Lieut. Colonel Guy Francois, Paul's U.S.-trained second-in-command, was named to succeed him as head of the Dessalines barracks...